real-time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company, inc. this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >> there's ambulances all over. bomb attack at the boston marathon. two bombs exploded seconds apart. tragedy at the finish line as the explosion shins killed three people and left dozens injured -- explosion shins. right now a nervous nation waits and wonders why would someone do such a thing? tonight the president promises swift justice. >> make no mistake we will get to the bottom of this. >> fox 5 live coverage of the boston marathon explosion shins continues right now. >> thanks for joining us tonight. i'm shawn yancey -- >> and i'm brian bolter. we have live coverage as local

police go on high alert. >> we begin tonight with maureen. >> two bombs exploding seconds apart at the boston marathon finish line. some 24,000 runners targeted. it happened just before 3:00 p.m. hours after runners had finished and slower runners were coming in. the area was crowded. >> it knocked know the ground and then everybody started running, panicking, started to go back that way towards it and another bomb went off. >> the blast killed three people, one of them an 8-year-old boy. 138 other people were hurt. some of the injuries described as amputation shins and severe burns. debris could be seen scattered throughout the spectator stands and finish areas of the marathon -- as emergency personnel cleared the area. >> these explosion shins

occurred 50-100 yards apart and each scene resulted in multiple casualties. >> according to law enforcement the first bomb exploded as the marathon sports running store. the second blast happened a few yards away. authorities believe the explosion shins were caused by small portable devices with ball bearings -- white house is calling the incident and act of terror. he made it clear whoever is responsible will be brought to ju justice. >> we still do not know who did this or why and people shouldn't jump to condition kluges shins before we have all the facts -- conclusions. but make no mistake we will get to the bottom of this and we will find out who did. this we'll find out why they did this. any responsible individuals or groups will feel the full weight of justice. >> now police initially said a

third explosion happened at the john f. kennedy library but later said it was related to a fire. also tonight i spoke with a woman who's family recently moved to boston. their 25-year-old son mike johnson was running in the marathon and he was crossing the finish line when the bomb exploded severely injure rig -- injuring him. >> he has head trauma right now. they are doing head surgery, brain surgery. >> it was his dream. he was running nonstop. he runs every morning from wherever he goes he runs. his whole left side is torn apart right now and he does not -- he just said my name. >> we've of course will have

more on his condition when we get it. >> johnson says it's too still early to know her son's prognosis and we'll stay on top of his condition. >> tonight we're also learning more about some of the people from our region who ran in the boston marathon today. will thomas talked to another person will. >> hi, shawn. we spoke with the principal of barnsley elementary school before his plane was leaving for boston. one of his daughters has type 1 diabetes and that's what propelled him to run for money. >> tonight principal winter and his wife are thankful he made it back home. >> i don't really know why these

events happened and you know just sickened and saddened by it. >> andrew winter -- reflecting on the attack. and how lucky he feels crossing the finish line 20 minutes before the explosion shins. >> we saw dozens of ambulances on one street, dozens of police cars on another street. just a lot going on. a and it really put a damper on the experience. >> his wife is still rattled and spoke with us outside their home to shield their twin 8-year-old girls from knowing about what happened in boston where their dad was raising money for juvenile diabetes research. >> i don't know that they need to know. i think that they're eight and they know daddy is cool and he's running a marathon which is amazing. it makes you not want to leave your house and you can't live

life like that but it's very scary. >> andrew winter is also principal winter at barnsley elementary school in rockville. he authorized a robo doll the student body and staff to let them know he's okay and heading back to school -- robo call. >> i got one that said mr. winter is safe and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone else. >> it's senseless and doesn't make any sense to me. >> principal winter ran the marathon last year for juvenile diabetes and the whole family including their 8-year-old daughters were right there among the spectators at the finish line right where the first explosion happened today. >> thank goodness he's safe. >> the boston explosion shins prompted serious concerns about homeland security -- right here in the nation's capital. fox 5 karen gray houston is live

at reagan national with the precautions being taken. >> shawn after what happened here at the pentagon and 9/11 the authorities are not make -- taking any chances. we have noticed stepped up security at reagan national airport and the white house is on high alert. shortly after the boston explosion shins the secret service sealed off pennsylvania avenue in front off the white house. yellow police tape was put up for the entire block cutting off pedestrian access leaving lafayette park the closest spot for tourists to nap pictures. from the ground the sharp shooters security was tight -- snap pictures. >> i did want to see the white house. >> our nation's capital is here and these are our leaders and they need to be safe to make sure that we're okay. >> we bumped in one family who

had friends attending the boston marathon. their friends e-mailed them a picture short i ly after the bombing and can report the friends did manage to get way safely -- shortly. carolyn was stunned but feels okay here in d.c. >> we assumed they stepped up security because of the incident in boston. >> are you afraid to be out here? >> no. i feel like it's probably one of the safer places with all the security and police presence. >> what are they trying to do? what is their message? because it's certainly not questions -- getting across to me. >> most people seemed upset about the bombings. not everyone was okay with being banned from being in front of the white house. >> it's a hours the the people. why can't we walk up to see the house? you got snipers on the roof, nobody is going to climb the gate. >> sometimes people climb that gate. >> i wouldn't climb that gate. >> security was heightened at prominent hotels. back out here some flights have

arrived here at reagan national from boston. we'll have more reaction to the explosion shins and more on security here at the airport on the edge at 11:00. >> shawn, back to you. >> karen, thank you. >> tonight dc's mayor and police chief talked about what is being done to protect the nation's app's dam -- lauren. >> -- nation's capital. >> the city is taking an abundance of precautions. today mayor gray offered assistance that the city of boston may need and sent out prayers to people there. here at the u.s. capitol the flag is flying at half-staff tonight. d.c. police are on a heightened security level and metro transit police are stepping up patrols. today was patriot day in boston. tomorrow is a d.c. holiday. emancipation day a parade is set to begin at 11:00 a.m. heading

along pennsylvania avenue from 3rd street to freedom plaza. the city is saying security measures are in place. >> we believe we're well-prepared to be able to defend the 600 32,000 people who live here and the many thousand who visit the city especially during this time of the year -- >> for washington, d.c., because we have so many events here and because this is the nation's capital the combination of law enforcement resources here on daily basis with the united states park police, metro transit police and our partners we have a lot of assets and resources here and everything that needs to be in place is in place. >> while officials are confident in security measures they do of course encourage the public to be vigilant and if you see something say something. that's what they've been repeating over and over. latest on capitol hill, brian, shawn. >> lauren.

the attacks have left a lot of people feeling unsafe. >> coming up we'll talk with a terrorism expert about preventing future attacks and securing an area like the district. >> stay with us. fox 5 news at 10:00 will be right back. >> 

iffed real investigators -- federal investigators. security around the country is being heightened as we've told you. joining us is terror expert larry johnson. thanks for coming in. what did the ball bearings tell you about the people about the people. >> they wanted to kill and jaime people. that is point number one. what is fortuitous a couple devices are being forensic cali exam mipd -- by figuring out what the explosive was and what the detonate tore was it will provide a signature of who was involved in building this. it was most likely high-explosive.

i've talked to a friend of mine who has been in the next sploes sieves business -- in explosive business. he could tell it was a high-explosive. what does that mean? could it have been a military explosive or something al-qaeda has used? as they get into it they will find that out. >> based on these explosions the type of ieds you're describing do you think the break will come from the carnage or human intelligence? >> no, i think it will come from the evidence collected on the ground. in part from the carnage. what will be interesting is to see how this exchange of information goes between federal and local officials. because this happened in boston and it didn't happen in a federal facility boston police and massachusetts state police actually have the lead on this investigation. now in terms of having all of the technology and the manpower and woman power necessary to put

all the information together that's something the f.b.i. can do well. unfortunately in the past in these investigations federal law enforcement use it as a one way street. they'll take information from the locals and they won't share anything. from watching the press conference i think they're will be the kind of sharing back and forth that needs to occur in order to advance the investigation. >> what do you make of the reports from seen year law enforcement that there was no chatter about this leading up to the event? >> because this was a domestic event if there was any chatter that was international it doesn't necessarily mean that it they were prepared to share it with the local law enforcement. i think that will be one of the other interesting stories to follow in the coming days. because in the past the f.b.i. has been very effective at detecting internationally and domestically activities before they occurred. this one clearly got through all the safety nets and it is you

know this clearly involved more than one person. >> and that's what i was going to ask. you to g this was a lone wolf? >> this absolutely was not a lone wolf. the amount of explosive used was between 20-30 pounds judging from just the visual size of the blast. i've seen other blasts like that and anyone that's going to carry package, do they carry it in a backpack, cooler or suit case? was it in a box or bag, that will be determined in the subsequent investigation but no one person is going to go lugging 160 pounds worth of explosives by themselves. you'll draw attention to yourself. you can easily carry 30 pounds. that's not physically draining but when you get up to carrying two devices worth 60 pounds or three devices worth 90 or 120 pounds you draw acontinue schenn to yourself. this clearly had two people involved maybe more --

attention. >> there was a report that the government asked that the cell phone towers be turned off so that further bombs couldn't be detonated with remote devices. verizon came out and said they were never asked to do that. is that even possible? >> it might be possible with sometime given but i think what happened was as is natural in these incidents everybody reached for the cell phone. everybody starts trying to use it and you get and over load that way. one of the things they will be looking at was this remotely detonated using some sort of cell phone communication? was this on a timer? was this a person suicide bomber with a switch that they threw themselves? we don't know that yet but the simultaneous occurrence of these two explosions is also a signature that it has been a hallmark. we used to be only al-qaeda did that. that doesn't mean that some

other groups couldn't adopt it. we've seen copycats before with respect to the ira in ireland. but it is you look for all these kinds of patterns of behavior and what was done in order to try to get the complete picture. >> terror expert larry johnson, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> boston police asking anyone with tips call 1-800-494-tips. the red cross at least locally perhaps could use donations of blood but the one in massachusetts has been overwhelmed by generosity over there and they've asked people to schedule their blood donations otherwise. here at home go to red cross blood dot org. >> it was hard to find a cell phone signal in boston today -- and many people had trouble contact manying loved ones. google came out with a good idea. >> within a few hours google came up with way for you to track down loved ones. in the boston area this one is called google person finder and

let's look at it right now. you can log onto look for someone in boston or report information about someone so others can read it. the red cross has a similar service on their website to find friends and loved ones. twitter was pretty busy as you might imagine first bystanders tweeted pictures of the aftermath and now people are tweeting their condolences. the hash tag pray for boston has been trending all night long but be careful on twitter. someone has created a fake boston marathon accounts promising to donate money forry tweet and twitter has suspended that account. we're going to show you more of the latest trends and an online reaction at 11:00. >> we'll see you then, maureen. >> coming up a shocking arrest caught on tape. a man repeatedly tased and kicked before getting cuffed. what police said about this

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police officials at an popular beach resort are investigating an arrest recorded bay witness. i got warn you it might be difficult to watch. >> put your hands behind your back. >> guys, listen. i just want to take him home. guys. guys. stop it. >> that arrest happened april 7th in rehoboth beach and that's her husband. police say his name is jeremy anderson. at one point you could see the officers tasing the man and kicking him in the head while the woman screams at them to stop. police say they tried to stop with anderson because of a disorderly person call but he walked way and made a threatening gesture. anderson pled guilty to resisting arrest with force causing injury to an officer and

menacing. one officer has been placed on administrative leave. >> now a news alert out of virginia. fairfax county police say a missing 5-year-old boy and his mother were spotted last friday. rebecca is charged with felony parental abduction shin. she was supposed to return cam tron his father but never did -- they're using find cam tron get the message out nationwide. >> -- cameron. >> coming up next we're live in boston with an update from police. we'll hear how local runners fared in the wake of the explosions. >> if you see a story we should look into, give us a call or e-mail us. >>

welcome back. the f.b.i. is treating today's bombings as a terrorist attack. >> there are reports of three people dead. tonight city remains on edge. police urge people to stay home and be on alert for suspicious activity. craig boswell live with more in boston. >> good evening. this city is on edge, very nervous tonight. flying in this evening at the airport or around the city anyone walking off and leaving a brief case police swoop in. it is a city just on edge tonight. hospitals have treated 141 people. some of them children including one of the fatalities an 8-year-old boy. there's a 15 block radius around the blast site as experts are scouring for evidence.

>> chaos at the finish line at the boston marathon. a pair of explosions designed to maim and kill knocking runners and spectators off their feet the first blast came at the four hour mark in the race. >> it knocked me to the ground and then you know everybody started running, panicking. >> 12 seconds later another blast. the attack coming at the end of the 26.2 mile race. shell-shocked victims some with open wounds laying amongst debris and open glass. bystanders jumping into action. >> everybody is running in not knowing when the next one could happen but they ran in. they tore down to the fences. they jumped in and help the people. witt was unbelievable. >> -- it was unbelievable. >> emergency responders rushed to help people. a white house official says this attack will be handled as an act off terror the president reassuring a nervous nation.

>> we will get to the bottom of this and we will find out who did this. we'll find out why they did this. any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice. >> now five additional unexplode iddevices were found -- unexploded devices. we heard from hospital officials talking about the injuries describing the shrapnel as ball bearings causing some of these horrific wounds that were described. i think 17,000 people of the 23,000 that were running that marathon had finished. this blast timed to try and catch as many people in that area that four hour mark is generally a time when people finishing the race are coming across and there's usually lots of family members and friends around to welcome them across the finish line. >> craig, what are you hearing about the report of a saudi national being among the injured

and under lockdown at wone of te hospitals there? >> right. i -- this is a stores fox news that says investigators are looking for a saudi national approximately 20 to 21 years of age here on a student visa. he's not being described as a suspect but someone they want to question in connection. we're told there's not someone in custody that they're questioning but that's what we know at this point right now about that. >> all right. craig boswell, live in boston. >> meantime runners from d.c. ran in today's boston marathon including the d.c. road runners club. brian joins us tonight. thanks for being here. >> hi, shawn. thanks for having me. >> we should let our viewers know you didn't run today but you did speak to several members in your club who were up there in the race today. how are they tonight? >> you know thankfully through social media and a bunch of phone calls we were able to get in touch with 25 of our runners. so they're all doing well and none of them were hurt.

our hearts go out to to the ones who were injured during the bombing. >> where were they? where were the members of your club when the oaks sploegs shins had went off? >> most of them had continue initialed -- eggs sploins shins -- explosions. >> organizers were able to stop people and not let them pile up where the carnage was. >> when you talked to them or reached out to them how did they describe that scene to you? >> you know i wasn't able to talk to in person to the ones that were stopped. i was only able to talk to the people who had already finished the marathon and most of them heard the explosions but had no idea what was going on until i told them what was going on at which point their biggest concern was to get out of the city and you know get on planes or go out to friends's houses. >> you say their concern was to get out of the city. were they concerned that this might be terrorist attack that

there might be more things happening they're in boston? is that why they wanted to get out? >> the first thing that comes to mind for anybody who hears of a bombing is to get as far away from it as possible so i can't tell you what they were possibly thinking though. >> let me ask you. the members in your club and run -- you run in dozens of marathons. does this shake your confidence in security to keep runners and spectators safe? >> well, i think that most marathons and most marathons in major cities like d.c., new york and boston are coordinated with the entire city in order to provide safety. for example in d.c. whenever you put on a big event you work with the mayor special event task groups which coordinates with the local and federal officials in order to make sure that there isn't anything going wrong. obviously this was a horrible act of terror and we'll -- we really can't know what is going to happen at any other event like this. >> absolutely. we certainly are glad that the members of your club are safe.

brian, thanks so much for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up. help for anyone who may have forgotten to file their taxes and the mother of a virginia tech shooting victim marches on capitol hill with a message. stay with us. >> stom st 

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well the pressure is on especially for lawmakers who could be voting soon. >> laurie is a mom on a mission. >> we wanted to deliver this to the senator and to ask for his suppo support. >> her daughter was in french class at virginia tech in 2007 when she was shot twice in the back of the head. emily has recovered. her mom says the nation has not. >> there have been over 180 7,000 -- 187 thousand gun deaths since virginia tech. >> this past december there was newtown. >> newtown was the absolute last straw. >> laurie has started a petition in support of gun control on the website moveon.org.

>> within 24 hours after the sandy hook shootings and that petition grew. >> by the time she arrived on capitol hill to deliver the petitions there were 1.3 million signatures. >> americans understand that gun violence hits home. it hits our schools. it hits our movie theaters, our grocery stores our neighborhoods our family and friends. and americans are sick and tire of the carnage. >> with move on national director garland gilchrist hawes visited the offices of senate democrats. they did not get to meet with the lawmakers but they told staffers what they want. >> the background checks bill. the limit on high magazines capacity and to regulate and ban assault weapons. >> now hawes delivered the petitions to six senate offices -- in clued thing office of mark warner from virginia. >> they need shoring up. they need encourage jinx and

some needy manneding. the realty is americans are dying. americans are dying. >> her daughter is a survivor. she has gotten married and she is now a school teacher. >> she called me and told me she is proud of me. >> visitors the national september 11th memorial and museum in new york will have to pay up two more dollars. it's a fee to reserve passes online or by phone. the fee went into effect last month. the memorial president says it's necessary for upkeep and some family says it violates the mission. >> another example of them making this review generating tourist attraction rather than a memorial. it should be for free. >> the memorial opened in 2011 and has attracted 7 million visitors. >> the captain in the cruise

ship that sank off the greek coast may go jail. they want him to stand trial causing the shipwreck and abandoning the vessel before the passengers evacuated. he claims his steering closer to port helped save lives. >> all right. back here close to home talking about the weather certainly a lot cooler than it has been. >> we don't have a 91 degree day in the forecast but we do have warmer days coming including tomorrow. brian and shawn we had a lot of clouds today and that kept us on the chilly side. we still have clouds and reason for them which is an east wind that has been bringing an onshore flow. so that was go continue tonight and tomorrow is going to start out much the same way but i do think our tuesday will brighten up just a little bit by the time we roll around to the afternoon. here are the temperatures today and yes a little back to seasonable. i'm kind of glad for that. 63 degrees. felt good today. i don't want to run my air conditioner yet.

64 at dulles. but i do think by tomorrow afternoon we could be 10 degrees warmer if not 12 in many areas. so we're going to be changing things up this week but nothing too overwhelmingly hot. 59 degrees. still on the chilly side out there. you can feel the difference that the wind direction makes tonight. it's 57 in annapolis. so really uniform temperatures across the board here. and the clouds and a few sprinkles have been around. now tomorrow we'll start out much the same way with clouds. maybe sprinkles in a few areas but think i think we'll brighten up in a few hours in the afternoon. that's all it -- it will take to get up to 75 degrees tomorrow. wednesday we have showers in the forecast. there's going to be a frontal boundary lurking nearby. it will start approaching tomorrow and as it stalls out over maryland it may become the focus of showers or thunder wednesday night -- wednesday's temperature 77 degrees. we're not going to have two totally sunny days.

we'll have a mix of cloud and sun. you can see light sprinkles moving through phillie tonight. if you look closely you'll see we've had a few sprinkles here and there. the cloud deck is persistent. if you were to get on the other side of the mountains, it's no quite as cloudy. this is the frontal rain that will get in here wednesday but it's going to have a tough time moving this direction. i think it gets to southern pennsylvania tomorrow and that will switch the direction on us. would you believe yet another snowstorm in the denver area. now we're talking really late season. started out as rape but they could get 6 inches of snow in denver -- started out as rain but they could get 6 inches of rain. for us it will be sun and clouds tomorrow. we'll see more sunshine in the afternoon. the frontal boundary that i showed you will try to get closer to us tomorrow but it won't be until sometime wednesday when we see it shrinking through our area and then stalling out to central maryland.

that will promote showers and rumbles of thunder on wednesday. so moisture for the garden so you don't have to do all the watering yourself. at 10:00 at 10:00 tonight we have clouds around the region. i think we'll start that way in the morning. maybe a sprinkle here and there and then by the afternoon i think it should get brighter. maybe a couple showers in the mountains but i don't think that will we for everybody. wednesday should start out for the most part dry but by the time we get into the afternoon because of the sun and instability as well that is frontal boundary close by we could cook up showers after 1:00 on wednesday. by the time we roll into thursday i think we stay fairly dry then thursday night into friday might have another chance for a showers. so for tonight 53 degrees. kind of chilly out there. clouds maybe a spotty sprinkle or shower. that's not going to be a lot of rain for us. we had a trace earlier from the rain showers that came through

overnight that were so light. tomorrow 75 degrees. there will be a few sunny spots by the afternoon and that will warm us up but it's mostly wind that is going to warm us up out of the south at 5-15 miles per hour. it will be 57 in the morning. by noon we should get up to 70 degrees. by 4:00 about 74 with some sunny spots as well. a look at temperatures around the region tomorrow and most places will get into the 70s with a cloudy start maybe a sprinkle here and there and i think just about everybody else will get in on the sunshine for tomorrow afternoon. so your fox 5 weather forecast we're warm on wednesday. 77. warmer thursday at 78. very late thursday into friday a stronger frontal boundary gets closer to us. that could have showers and thunderstorms with it. and then we've got on saturday much cooler temperatures with early showers at 62 degrees. another cooler than average weekend but very spring like the whole city is turning green. it's like somebody air brushed it. >> thank you.

>> from facebook to surfing the web are your kids safe online? maryland attorney general took part in a campaign to teach teens and parents how to protect themselves and i their privacy online. it's all part of the national attorneys general association presidential initiative summit. it's taking place right now at the national harbor. >> the family of a california girl who committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault by her classmates is speaking out. they also plan to file a lawsuit against the three suspects. >> we miss her every day. >> the devastated family of a young california girl speaking out after the girl killed herself following an alleged sexual assault by her classmates. the family attorney says 15-year-old audrey pott hanged herself eight days after she was raped at an party after she drank alcohol and fell asleep. following the attack the teen

saw a photo taken during the assault posted online before killing herself audrey posted on her facebook her life was ruined. her parents say they didn't know about the attack until their daughter's death. >> i think that audrey did try to reach out to some of her friends for help but she didn't reach out to an adult that knew how to handle the gravity of the situation. >> last thursday seven months after the attack the santa clara county sheriff's office arrested 316 year old boys on suspicion of sexual battery -- >> these crimes are not juvenile. sexual assault is an adult crime. these boys distributed to fixtur pictures to humiliate my daughter. if this can happen to my daughter it can happen to anyone. >> the suspect lawyers say much of what have been reported is inaccurate. the san jose attack comes after a recent incident that grabbed national headlines in ohio where two football players were

convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl. in that incident graphic and humiliating pictures were posted online. >> coming up tonight a big star with a powerful message. these women have a powerful story to tell. we'll tell you how singer alicia keys is lending star power to their campaign. >> our live team coverage continues on the news edge at 11:00. >> ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just to stay alive... but feel alive. the c-class is no exception. it's a mercedes-benz through and through. the 2013 c-class. starting at $35,350.

grammy award winner alicia keys visited the district to talk about her new campaign to raise awareness and educate people. >> it didn't take more than a few minutes standing near seventh and the aids epidemic to

come into focus. we met sydney parson who has been living with the aids virus for 21 years. >> if you had more people like me that would just willfully say i'm h.i.v. because i'm trying to help you not become h.i.v. it would be a better place. >> i was so moved by their strength and passion. >> that's why alicia keys is launching a campaign targeting women in this country who experts say make up a quarter of the one million americans living with hiv. >> it's definitely a time that women see h.i.v. is our issue and embrace our power. >> she introduced women. >> i wouldn't wish infection on anyone. >> jenn is a wife and mother who has been living with the aids virus for 20 years. >> we now are at an place where through treatments we can look at it as a chronic disease for those of us who are successful

with our treatments. >> the keys' campaign offering grants of $25,000 to community organizations treating women living with hiv. >> my medication costs 3,000 plus a month. i don't have that of course. i don't have that. so of course i have to get cis stance. that assistance is highly needed because without my meds -- get assistance because without my meds there's no telling what could happen. >> aids infection rates are trending downward in this country but still 50,000 new cases each year. that's why the obama administration says it's making the epidemic a top priority. >> the president 2014 budget that he just released last week. includes over $23 billion to address hiv-aids in the united states. >> an epidemic that's 30 years old. in the district, bob barnard, fox 5 news. >> thanks so much for joining us tonight at 10:00. here's brian with the news edge at 11